Artist Quote by Marina Abramovic

You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.

— Lauryn Hill

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've…

— Peter Maxwell Davies

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as…

— Michael Giles

When I was young, I kept a book about my performances. It was easier then, because I was not so very busy.

— Mirella Freni

There was nothing extraordinary about the work I was doing as a composer though I had delivered hits.

— Vijay Antony

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Performing was always something that I actually used to do before I settled in the studio as a composer.

— Ramin Djawadi

I've done quite a few records now, and I look back and think of them as documents of my musical journey.

— Kieran Hebden

There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a…

— Robert Wyatt

I worked with Sidney Lumet years ago, and we had a long rehearsal process, and he would tape out the entire set on the…

— Denzel Washington

A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.

— Evelyn Glennie

The thing to remember when you're re-recording pieces from the past is that you have to have respect for the original performances, recordings, and…

— Ian Gillan